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- Apple Introduces MacBooks with "Unibody" Construction
- Seth Gilbert submits: Tuesday, Apple AAPL revealed an evolved slate of thin, light, eco-friendly MacBook notebooks to waiting audiences. Greener, leaner and more powerful than ever, the laptops remain high on style and function but despite prelaunch speculation to the contrary, they’re still mostly premium-priced, premium products. Entry priced...
- External links 2008-10-15
- Apple Earnings Wrapup
- Seth Gilbert submits: “A leader is a dealer in hope” - Napoleon Bonaparte Layoffs. Write-offs. Weak Guidance. Turbulent Times. Uncertainty. Foggy Futures. Cracked crystal balls. Caution. Concern. by Seth Gilbert
- External links 2008-10-24
- Apple Rumors: Mac Upgrades and iPhone Production Drop
- Seth Gilbert submits: Fresh off recent upgrades to Macbooks last month and with no iTunes chatter to replicate Harmonix’s Beatles’ conquest, the Applevine (aka Apple AAPL rumors and speculation) surprisingly came to life to start this week with a couple new speculative suggestions. On the Mac front: Apple-watching...
- External links 2008-11-04
- Google Faces Opposition from Harvard in Book Search Deal
- Seth Gilbert submits: Last week, Google GOOG announced they’d reached an agreement with publishers and authors to settle a three year old copyright battle over their book scanning practices. Both sides expressed great satisfaction with the result. In public statements, the deal, which still must be approved by the...
- External links 2008-11-05
- Apple's Chief Cook Takes Over for Ailing Jobs
- Seth Gilbert submits: Even as he denies it himself, Apple’s Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook has often been billed as Steve Jobs' eventual successor. When Jobs was recuperating from pancreatic cancer in 2004, Cook ably took the helm. Now, it seems, on another interim basis (albeit without a...
- External links 2009-01-14
- Apple Bucks Faltering Retail Trend with Best Revenue Result Yet
- Seth Gilbert submits: Many retailers fell apart this holiday season, their registers ringing up far less of the holiday cheer than they’d have liked. Companies were cutting staff. Cash was being conserved. Spending, especially on premium products, was way down. Apple AAPL, despite the so called “Apple Tax,” the...
- External links 2009-01-22
- Off the Applevine: Netbook Rumors, U2 Defection
- Seth Gilbert submits: Apple’s AAPL said it again and again: it has little interest in the netbook category of computers at this time. As recently as October, Steve Jobs called it a “nascent” market segment. Still, no matter the denials or rejections, the rumors just won’t quit. They’ve been trailing...
- External links 2009-03-10
- Netbook Rumors Swirl on the Applevine
- Seth Gilbert submits: Other than a cryptic comment about having some ideas, or remarks the market opportunity is still nascent, Apple AAPL has not said anything about making a netbook computer. Still, the frequency of rumors about the so far non-existent device rate second on the Applevine ...
- External links 2009-04-21
- Apple's Q2 by the Numbers: Another Solid Showing
- Seth Gilbert submits: In the second quarter, despite the economy’s effect on consumer sales, Apple’s AAPL train continued to roll ahead with plenty of steam. Wednesday, the company announced the best non-holiday earnings in its history. After the close of the market, Apple reported net income of $1.33 a...
- External links 2009-04-23
- Apple Cranks Out Another Solid Quarter
- Seth Gilbert submits: The economy continues to be a drag on earnings for many consumer technology companies but Apple AAPL isn’t one of them. After the close of markets Tuesday, the company reported 3rd quarter earnings of $1.24b, or $1.35 a share, up from $1.07b, or $1.19 a share...
- External links 2009-07-22
- Latest on the Applevine: Apple Tablet in 2010?
- Seth Gilbert submits: Sometimes when a company says they aren’t doing something, they really aren’t. But other times, brush-offs hide another message. Sometimes, lost in careful wording, there’s a different truth. As Shakespeare famously put it, “the lady doth protest too much.” When denials are over-emphasized something is going...
- External links 2009-07-26
- Apple's Q4 by the Numbers
- Seth Gilbert submits: There comes a point when calling each successive performance a record starts to get a little ridiculous. Apple AAPL crossed that threshold a long time ago but the fiscal rocket ship flying out of Cupertino isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. Even in spite of lofty...
- External links 2009-10-20
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- Sony Announces New Hardware for PSP and PS3
- Seth Gilbert submits: Wednesday was a busy day for Sony SNE. The company’s gaming division used the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany to reveal a number of new hardware offerings. Topping the list was a new SKU for the Playstation 3 platform. With Sony’s focus evolving more and...
- External links 2008-08-21
- Zune Bug Further Blemishes Microsoft's Consumer Hardware Reputation
- Seth Gilbert submits: If you type “hate Vista” and “Microsoft MSFT” into Google, the search engine returns 91,200 results. “Vista Sucks” and “Microsoft” returns 124,000. It’s no secret Microsoft’s latest operating system offering has its critics. Xbox and Zune owners are far less venomous. Many, in fact,...
- External links 2009-01-04
- Has the Economy Finally Caught Up with Nintendo?
- Seth Gilbert submits: Nintendo released its third quarter earnings last week PDF file. Unit sales over the holiday period were great but having to convert overseas purchases from foreign currency to yen wasn’t. Profits took a hit. It was all largely as expected. Same as the last quarter, mostly....
- External links 2009-02-01
- Inside NPD's July '08 Gaming Report
- Seth Gilbert submits: Summer is a time for BBQs and beaches. The weather is good and people tend to enjoy it. Not surprisingly, as a result, it’s a slower period for indoor entertainment products like video games. Still, “slower” is a relative term. According to newly released NPD sales data...
- External links 2008-08-15
- Amazon Video on Demand Joins Crowded Internet TV Market
- Seth Gilbert submits: It was rumored in May, tested in a limited beta in July and now it’s here. Thursday, Amazon AMZN officially opened the door to their new on-demand video service. It’s download-free, straight through the pipes, streamed on demand; another Internet TV and movie distribution platform in...
- External links 2008-09-08
- Will SanDisk's New 'Slot Music' Make Sense for Consumers?
- Seth Gilbert submits: Efforts by the major music labels to find new revenue sources that will replace eroding CD sales often have the feeling of things being thrown at the wall to see what sticks. Monday, the Big 4 (Sony BMG SNE, Universal, Vivendi and Warner Music Group...
- External links 2008-09-23
- Nintendo Reveals Solution to Wii Storage Problem Amid HD Rumors
- Seth Gilbert submits: Nintendo’s (NTDOY.PK) sold more than 14 million Wii consoles in the U.S and dominated the monthly U.S. sales charts for months, but leading into Thursday’s Nintendo media day in San Francisco, the palpable buzz was centered not so much on what Nintendo has in the market...
- External links 2008-10-03
- Blu-Ray: Finally, Some Retail Respect
- Seth Gilbert submits: A year removed from vanquishing HD DVD, Blu-ray DVDs are finally getting some retail respect. At least, according to a forecast from market research firm FutureSource Consulting. The U.K.-based firm released a prediction PDF this week saying consumers will buy more than 100m high definition Blu-ray discs...
- External links 2009-02-26
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